EDP: New mental health beds to be opened for children and young people

Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: New mental health beds for children and young people are set to open in the region after a review found current services were not enough. At long last! We’ve been saying this should happen for more than four years. Commissioners, including the newly-imposed CEO of NSFT, Antek […]

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General Election 2017: No questions for Clive Lewis, Labour, Norwich South

We don’t have any questions for Clive Lewis. Clive Lewis walked from Ipswich to Norwich to highlight the devastating cuts to mental health before he was elected to be the MP for Norwich South. Clive Lewis joined hundreds of local people on both of our Marches for Mental Health. Clive Lewis has consistently supported our

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General Election 2017: Norfolk NHS Action Group: NHS Hustings: Tuesday 30th May, 7 p.m., Auditorium, The Forum, Norwich

The general election 2017 NHS hustings begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday 30th May 2017 in the Auditorium at The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich NR2 1TF. The hustings will last about two hours. The panel includes: Chris Jones, Labour Party candidate for Norwich North Hugh Lanham, Liberal Democrat candidate for Norwich North Catherine Rowett, Green

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Duplicitous Norman Lamb: EDP: Mental health campaigner and nurse tells tribunal of upset at MP’s inaccurate claim she was partner of Clive Lewis

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A Norfolk councillor has described her upset after an MP wrongly told a BBC journalist she was the partner of Norwich South MP Clive Lewis. An email was sent from the account of North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb to the BBC’s political editor for east England Deborah

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Evening News: Anger over decision to close ‘excellent’ 24-bed ward in Norwich

Nicholas Carding of the Norwich Evening News reports on the closure of yet another 24 beds for the elderly on the Julian Hospital site: A 24-bed ward which helps a hospital discharge patients faster will close in three weeks – less than two years after opening. So much for stopping bed blocking. The Henderson Unit,

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EDP: ‘It is horrendous’ – Figures reveal huge rise in number of unexpected mental health deaths

Tom Bristow of the Archant Investigations Unit reports in the Eastern Daily Press: A record number of patients are dying unexpectedly each month at the region’s troubled mental health trust, despite years of reassurances and reviews into the problem. Campaigners and families of those who have died reacted with horror today to the latest set

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BBC News: Concern at rise in mental health patient deaths

Nic Rigby of the BBC reports: The number of Norfolk and Suffolk mental health patient deaths has gone up from four to six a month between 2013 and 2015, it has been revealed. The 50% increase in the average number of deaths, excluding deaths by natural causes or those drug-related, goes before a trust meeting

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EDP: Norwich MP calls on Prime Minister to intervene over secret mental health report

Norwich South MP Clive Lewis used his first outing at Prime Minister’s question time at lunchtime today to urge the release of the report into the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) which he said raised “serious questions about patient safety and care, due to cuts to services”. He told MPs that the “duty of

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Video: Clive Lewis MP raises Alexander Report into devastating cuts at NSFT with Prime Minister

“Norfolk and Suffolk NHS mental health trust which serves my constituency is refusing to publish the so called ‘Alexander Report’ into its operations. The report, which I’ve seen, raises serious questions about patient safety and care, due to cuts to services. “Does the Prime Minister agree with me that the duty of candour should apply

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